Expert: Narendra - 7/5/2004

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I am trying to find a program that converts a date and time to Unix epoch time (I am using a solaris system).  For instance,
Thu, 20 May 2004 00:27:15 needs to be converted to epochtime.  I know it is not a real hard program but I cannot program in C.

I would really appreciate it if you could help me.

Rachel Alexander
Answer -
I think the function mktime() is what you are looking for.
It is there in Linux. Check if it is in Solaris also?

-ssnkumar

mktime is indeed a function in solaris.  But seeing as I can't program in C I don't know what kind of structure to give my program.

Rachel

Answer
Read the man page.
Here is the structure used by it:
struct tm {
        int     tm_sec;         /* seconds */
        int     tm_min;         /* minutes */
        int     tm_hour;        /* hours */
        int     tm_mday;        /* day of the month */
        int     tm_mon;         /* month */
        int     tm_year;        /* year */
        int     tm_wday;        /* day of the week */
        int     tm_yday;        /* day in the year */
        int     tm_isdst;       /* daylight saving time */
};

-ssnkumar